Original airdate: September 25, 2006
Story by Magnus Scheving
Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary
Directed by Magnus Scheving
Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue
Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello
Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess, Ronald Binion,
Mmm, a new season! Smells like a new book.
The episode begins with a CGI shot of Sportacus’ airship. Not gonna lie, but it looked better in the first season.. Anyways, Sportacus calls for some Sportscandy. He says he loves sportscandy, and also loves to move. So he throws the apple to the wall and it bounces. Then he does a handstand.
In an attempt to do a one-handed handstand, he lifts his hand up, whacking the apple against the wall again. Then he gets up, flips and kicks the apple to the camera. Then he does some more cartwheels and jumps, then he does a handstand and kicks the apple again!THEN he kicks it trying to stand up! And he does another handstand, kicking the poor apple. THEN he does backwards cartwheels, kicking the apple as he lifts up his feet. Sportacus starts to jump on the white circle mats, then starts shuffling from mat to mat. He does another cartwheel, hitting and kicking the apple. Then he does a backflip, a pushup, jumps up, puts his hand up, and bam!
The apple is in his hand. He says that Sportscandy and moving is super cool. What a great way to start a season, giving us the action we expect from LazyTown. Anyways, the main episode starts with a song - ’King of the Town’. A song the kids are performing in the Town Hall.
Stingy is on vocals, Trixie is on mixing, Stephanie is on guitar, Pixel is on piano and Ziggy is on drums. They sound wonderful until Stephanie accidentally gets caught up in her dancing and kicks the cord to her boombox. Then they sound bad enough for Sportacus to check on them to see if anyone is in trouble. Then Sportacus checks on them to see if anyone is in trouble. Stephanie shows Stingy the unplugged cord and he tells her to plug it in before someone discovers they can’t play.
Too late. Sportacus insults them indirectly by saying he heard a terrible noise. They tell him it was them playing and he apologizes (not meaning it because that was awful!!). Then Ziggy demonstrates his epik drum skilz!!!1!111! and he almost falls down swinging the sticks.
Luckily, Sportacus catches him and the drum-sticks. Sportacus thinks it is great the kids are starting a band and Ziggy asks if he can play the drums and he can. I love this scene because other than exercise, sportscandy and jumping in muddy puddles, we know a bit more about Sporty’s interests, hobbies and skills. Anyways, the drums are so loud Robbie’s lair shakes and he comes falling to the ground from his chair. He is pretty annoyed but Bessie and Milford have a more positive reaction - he runs to the town hall. After Sportacus has finished, Milford asks him if that is a beat from a recognizable song, and Sportacus confirms it.
The drum beat is from ‘Rock n roll, dude!’ by Johnny B. Badd. (This reminds me of when my mother told me about Makoma, a religious DRC family who performed from 1993-2012.) Milford says Badd was his favourite artist as a kid and none of the kids have ever heard of him. Surprised Pixel hasn’t because all he does is use the computer. He must’ve stumbled across some B. Badd fan site on Geocities at least once. Anyways, Milford tells the kids that everyone copied him as a kid. He demonstrates with a photo of Johnny B. Badd’s concert poster and a photo of him.. with hair.
Anyways, he asks the kids if they wanna hear his music and they say yes. They go back to his house and play 'Rock your socks off’ on vinyl. Everyone is dancing to the (super cool) song. Mani composed it which is great, because he’s so talented he can write songs that sound like they’re from the 60s! (Not to mention he actually co-wrote this episode.) Meanwhile, Robbie looks at them through his periscope and questions if they have ants in their pants. By the request of Bessie (this is her favorite of Johnny’s songs), he turns the volume up. Robbie is still looking and is even more horrified when he figures out they’re dancing!
Stephanie (despite this being an instrumental song) loves Johnny’s songs and wishes she could hear him sing in person. Milford stops the vinyl and says that is a wonderful idea (it isn’t. Johnny could possibly be dead or retired). They are going to award him with a trophy for being their favourite singer. Robbie says that everyone will listen to him and do as he says. Then he comes up with the great idea (shouldn’t have taken him seven seconds to come up with) to disguise himself as Johnny B. Badd!
We find out Milford is such a fan he knows Badd’s phone number. (He asks how he looks before calling him, XD!) So he dials 555-2-BAD, and the phone line that the Badd’s phone is inside is literally miles away from LazyTown. Robbie climbs up to the phone line and answers the call.
Milford asks if this is Johhny, and Robbie says yes. Before agreeing to come to the town, he asks Milford if kids still think he is cool and will obey his every word. Milford says that if Johnny told him to bark like a dog, he’d bark like a dog. Then Robbie tells him to bark like a dog. Much to Bessie’s shock, he barks like a dog. The noise startles Robbie and he falls off the phone line with a really loud yell.
The funniest part is it wasn’t even that loud - he said it with no effort like 'Woof. Woof.’ Anyways, Milford hangs up and he tells them that Johnny sang to him. The kids decide to go practice THEIR music - performing ’Play in a Band’. After the song ends, Milford goes to his office looking for something, then Robbie turns his chair around.
In a reference to 'Robbie Rotten’s Greatest Misses’ which is a reference to 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas’, Milford stutters until Robbie tells him to 'spit it out!’ and he does. Bessie faints.
In a @lazytownpoint interview with Mani from 2007, he says he tried to add humor to the episodes. And boy, oh boy, did he succeed amazingly! Milford tells him the kids want to meet him and he does 'the WOW move’. Twice. By the second time, MILFORD faints!
Robbie asks 'Grandpa’ if he is okay, then he stands up. Robbie tells him to pull himself together. The kids are drinking water [Ziggy is drinking soda, durr] after their practice and Milford makes a loud-speaker announcement to tell the kids to come meet Johnny. Robbie walks up on stage and he wants to play a super fun game - “Catch a Rockstar!’ How to play?
Well, you might not know and apparently neither did the kids.. I thought the name was very straight forward! Then comes a more cartoony moment where there are stars flying around his head after he gets up and sits on stage. Then he signs autographs.
He signs Stingy’s notepad as from 'Robbie’ which confuses the kids for a second (that alone should’ve revealed it was Robbie!!!). He says Robbie is just a rotten friend of his. Milford tells the kids to give him some space because he needs to prepare for the concert. Once everyone leaves, he says to himself that nobody needs to worry about a concert because there won’t be one. Meanwhile, Robbie is in his dressing room chillaxing when Milford knocks on the door and he lets him in. Milford is for some reason, in the exact same clothing as Johnny.
Robbie tells him his hair looks terrible then Milford says it’s a JBB wig. Then he smiles and does 'the wow move’. He tells him he looks cool, and Milford asks him if he needs anything. Robbie says he needs white towels with blue stripes, assuming it’ll take him a long time to find them.
It doesn’t. Then he asks for twenty chocolate cookies. He gets them, alongside with a rubber ducky. He tests Milford by asking for a golden trophy, which nearly tricks the Mayor, but he says after the show. Then Robbie asks to get rid of Sportacus, as all the jumping and flipping gets on his nerves. Milford is not too sure about it until Robbie threatens to sing somewhere else. So he sends Sporty a letter.
Sportacus assumes it’s his invitation to the concert. And boy, oh boy, does he get a doozy. It’s the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF HIS INVITATION TO THE CONCERT. Also, his confused face is hilarious. Maggi rocks.
Sportacus doesn’t go to the concert - he even makes it official with a response letter to the mayor. (I lied - he decides to check up on them 'just in case’ (he really wants to go)). Anyways, Milford gives Sportacus’ response letter to Robbie who dances of excitement, then switches to the air guitar to avoid suspicion. Then he shuts the door in an attempt to get Milford to shut up about the show starting in three minutes and Milford’s wig gets stuck. So, Milford knocks, Robbie opens the door.. and..
He puts on the wig. IT’S A WIGCEPTION!! Until he notices and gives it back to him. Robbie talks to himself about how the concert won’t go, then he steps on the rubber ducky (nooo11!!!!), picks it up and carries it, telling it to 'go finish our hair!’ XD. The kids who are in the audience are waiting for Johnny then Milford makes an announcement. The show’s starting in one minute, and he tells everyone (Pixel) to turn off all devices. Milford sees Robbie trying to take the trophy, and then he pulls the curtain! The kids are confused to see him stealing, but he lies and says he is just polishing it.
Then he puts it back, and just stands on stage. Then the kids tell him he should be singing and once he realizes, he grabs a guitar and hides behind the curtains. He turns on the boombox and performs (undeniably super awesome and amazing masterpiece) ’Rock your socks off’. If only we got a full version, as the song was supposed to last as long until he tripped over the boombox cord. So, anyways, he grabs the trophy and makes a run for it.. then he trips over the guitar and has the trophy stuck on his head.
Sportacus’ crystal beeps, and he sees Robbie (who ran outside the door) with the trophy on his head. Using a new vehicle, he travels to LazyTown and sees Robbie who has tripped over Stingy’s car and is now on a swing. Sportacus is smiling until he falls off, so he kicks a wheelbarrow. He falls into it, and he’s having a ride until the wheelbarrow drives over a rock and he runs into the hall. He closes the door and the handle falls off. Not a problem for Sportacus, who uses his Yoyo to take the door off it’s hinges (and put them back on). Then he does a frontflip and snatches the trophy off of Robbie’s head.
The disguise is revealed as he also snatches off his wig. (LOL, weave snatch in a Nick. Jr show!) Milford says you can admire people but shouldn’t copy them, which is what he has been doing the entire episode. Bessie’s sad because they couldn’t have a concert, but the kids say they can and perform 'Bing Bang’ - the rock version!! Epic.
Robbie declares the plan the dumbest thing he’s ever done. Out of anger, he smacks a plate with a cake slice on it while yelling 'ROCK AND ROLL??!!’ Then the cake flings on him. Then he says THAT was the dumbest thing he’s ever done.
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